Thursday

Words can be a powerful tool, they can be used to inform you, build you up or tear you down among other things!I have collected four words (sentences) that I never, ever want to hear!Feel free to add your own "4 words that you never want to hear" in the comment section, just below this posting!

Monday

"Honesty is the best policy" is a classic quote about telling the truth and probably one of the best known quotes ever about being honest. But did you know that Stephen King, Mark Twain and even John Gotti, all have something to say about honesty? Well I have collected a few famous quotes about honesty (telling the truth) and added them below! Feel free to leave a comment (even a honest one) or even your favorite quote in my comment section!

It is hard to believe that a man is telling the truth when you know that you would lie if you were in his place. ~Henry Louis Mencken

If you tell the truth you don't have to remember anything. ~Mark Twain

Fiction is the Truth inside the lie. ~ Stephen King

Honesty is never seen sitting astride the fence. ~Lemuel K. Washburn

A lie may take care of the present, but it has no future. ~Author Unknown

I never lie because I don't fear anyone. You only lie when you're afraid.
~John Gotti

There’s one way to find out if a man is honest ~ ask him. If he says, “Yes,” you know he is a crook. ~ Groucho Marx

Occasionally he stumbled over the truth, but hastily picked himself up and hurried on as if nothing had happened. ~Winston Churchill

Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing had happened. ~Winston Churchill

If you want to ruin the truth, stretch it. ~Author Unknown

The truth is more important than the facts. ~Frank Lloyd Wright

Like all valuable commodities, truth is often counterfeited. ~James Cardinal Gibbons

Respect for the truth is an acquired taste. ~Mark Van Doren

A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to put its pants on. ~Winston Churchill

Always telling the truth is no doubt better than always lying, although equally pathological. ~Robert Brault

If falsehood, like truth, had but one face, we would be more on equal terms. For we would consider the contrary of what the liar said to be certain. But the opposite of truth has a hundred thousand faces and an infinite field. ~Michel Eyquem de Montaigne

When a man lies, he murders some part of the world. ~Rospo Pallenberg and John Boorman, Excalibur, based on Le Morte d'Arthur by Thomas Malory

It is not without good reason said, that he who has not a good memory should never take upon him the trade of lying. ~Michel de Montaigne, translated from French

People who are brutally honest get more satisfaction out of the brutality than out of the honesty. ~Richard J. Needham

There is always a way to be honest without being brutal. ~Arthur Dobrin

If we were all given by magic the power to read each other's thoughts, I suppose the first effect would be to dissolve all friendships. ~Bertrand Russell

It is impossible to calculate the moral mischief, if I may so express it, that mental lying has produced in society. When a man has so far corrupted and prostituted the chastity of his mind as to subscribe his professional belief to things he does not believe he has prepared himself for the commission of every other crime. ~Thomas Paine

Beware of the half truth. You may have gotten hold of the wrong half. ~Author Unknown

When truth is divided, errors multiply. ~Eli Siegel

Truth is such a rare thing, it is delightful to tell it. ~Emily Dickinson

Some people will not tolerate such emotional honesty in communication. They would rather defend their dishonesty on the grounds that it might hurt others. Therefore, having rationalized their phoniness into nobility, they settle for superficial relationships. ~Author Unknown

Somewhere between the honest truth and the deceptive lie is the deceptive truth and the honest lie. ~Robert Brault

It takes two to lie. One to lie and one to listen. ~Homer Simpson, The Simpsons

There's one way to find out if a man is honest — ask him. If he says, "Yes," you know he is a crook. ~Groucho Marx

One of the most striking differences between a cat and a lie is that a cat has only nine lives. ~Mark Twain

Someday a computer will give a wrong answer to spare someone's feelings, and man will have invented artificial intelligence. ~Robert Brault

It is always the best policy to tell the truth, unless, of course, you are an exceptionally good liar. ~Jerome K. Jerome

I am different from Washington; I have a higher, grander standard of principle. Washington could not lie. I can lie, but I won't. ~Mark Twain

Am I lying to you if I tell you the same lie I tell myself? ~Robert Brault

A little candor never leaves me. It is what protects me. ~Antonio Porchia, Voces, 1943, translated from Spanish by W.S. Merwin

Cherish the friend who tells you a harsh truth, wanting ten times more to tell you a loving lie. ~Robert Brault

It is not difficult to deceive the first time, for the deceived possesses no antibodies; unvaccinated by suspicion, she overlooks lateness, accepts absurd excuses, permits the flimsiest patching to repair great rents in the quotidian. ~John Updike

No mask like open truth to cover lies,
As to go naked is the best disguise.
~William Congreve

Truth that is naked is the most beautiful, and the simpler its expression the deeper is the impression it makes; this is partly because it gets unobstructed hold of the hearer’s mind without his being distracted by secondary thoughts, and partly because he feels that here he is not being corrupted or deceived by the arts of rhetoric, but that the whole effect is got from the thing itself. ~Arthur Schopenhauer, translated from German

Truth is mighty and will prevail. There is nothing the matter with this, except that it ain't so. ~Mark Twain

Reality is bad enough. Why should I tell the truth? ~Patrick Sky

Speak the truth, but leave immediately after. ~Slovenian Proverb

A lie will easily get you out of a scrape, and yet, strangely and beautifully, rapture possesses you when you have taken the scrape and left out the lie. ~Charles Edward Montague

Every lie is two lies — the lie we tell others and the lie we tell ourselves to justify it. ~Robert Brault

Those who think it is permissible to tell white lies soon grow color-blind. ~Austin O'Malley

The least initial deviation from the truth is multiplied later a thousandfold. ~Aristotle

As important in a trusting relationship as the truths you share are the lies you never have to tell. ~Robert Brault

Who lies for you will lie against you. ~Bosnian Proverb

No man has a good enough memory to make a successful liar. ~Abraham Lincoln

Make yourself an honest man, and then you may be sure there is one less rascal in the world. ~Thomas Carlyle

A half truth is a whole lie. ~Yiddish Proverb

With lies you may get ahead in the world — but you can never go back. ~Russian proverb

Honesty is the rarest wealth anyone can possess, and yet all the honesty in the world ain't lawful tender for a loaf of bread. ~Josh Billings

The hardest tumble a man can make is to fall over his own bluff. ~Ambrose Bierce

A lie has speed, but truth has endurance. ~Edgar J. Mohn

When you stretch the truth, watch out for the snapback. ~Bill Copeland

Truth is the most valuable thing we have, so I try to conserve it. ~Mark Twain

Worse than telling a lie is spending the rest of your life staying true to a lie. ~Robert Brault

A truth that's told with bad intent
Beats all the lies you can invent.
~William Blake

We tell lies when we are afraid... afraid of what we don't know, afraid of what others will think, afraid of what will be found out about us. But every time we tell a lie, the thing that we fear grows stronger. ~Tad Williams

Truth fears no questions. ~Unknown

There are only two ways of telling the complete truth — anonymously and posthumously. ~Thomas Sowell

Honesty is the first chapter of the book of wisdom. ~Thomas Jefferson

I don't mind lying, but I hate inaccuracy. ~Samuel Butler

There is no well-defined boundary between honesty and dishonesty. The frontiers of one blend with the outside limits of the other, and he who attempts to tread this dangerous ground may be sometimes in one domain and sometimes in the other. ~O. Henry, Rolling Stones, 1912

Pretty much all the honest truth telling in the world is done by children. ~Oliver Wendell

The truth brings with it a great measure of absolution, always. ~R.D. Laing

Sunday

Are you fortunate enough to be a grandparent? Or maybe you have fond memories of spending time with your grandparents like I do? Grandparents are special people and mine were a big part of me becoming who I am today, that is why, I have collected the best quotes and images about grandparents! Feel free to check out a few of my favorites quotes related to grandparents.

Grandparents To Do List

"My Grandkids aren't spoiled! They are appreciated!"

The reason grandchildren and grandparents get along so well is that they have a common enemy. ~Sam Levenson

Grandmas are moms with lots of frosting. ~Author Unknown

What a bargain grandchildren are! I give them my loose change, and they give me a million dollars’ worth of pleasure. ~Gene Perret

A house needs a grandma in it. ~Louisa May Alcott

Our grandchildren accept us for ourselves, without rebuke or effort to change us, as no one in our entire lives has ever done, not our parents, siblings, spouses, friends — and hardly ever our own grown children. ~Ruth Goode

Never have children, only grandchildren. ~Gore Vidal

I always give my grandkids a couple of quarters when they go home. It’s a bargain. ~Gene Perret

Everyone needs to have access both to grandparents and grandchildren in order to be a full human being. ~Margaret Mead

To become a grandparent is to enjoy one of the few pleasures in life for which the consequences have already been paid. ~Robert Brault

Grandchildren are God’s way of compensating us for growing old. ~Mary H. Waldrip

You do not really understand something unless you can explain it to your grandmother. ~Proverb

An hour with your grandchildren can make you feel young again. Anything longer than that, and you start to age quickly. ~Gene Perret

If nothing is going well, call your grandmother. ~Italian Proverb

Elephants and grandchildren never forget. ~Andy Rooney

I don’t intentionally spoil my grandkids. It’s just that correcting them often takes more energy than I have left. ~Gene Perret

The best baby-sitters, of course, are the baby’s grandparents. You feel completely comfortable entrusting your baby to them for long periods, which is why most grandparents flee to Florida. ~Dave Barry

Few things are more delightful than grandchildren fighting over your lap. ~Doug Larson

To a small child, the perfect granddad is unafraid of big dogs and fierce storms but absolutely terrified of the word "boo." ~Robert Brault

Posterity is the patriotic name for grandchildren. ~Art Linkletter

Grandmas don’t just say "that’s nice" — they reel back and roll their eyes and throw up their hands and smile. You get your money’s worth out of grandmas. ~Author Unknown

A mother becomes a true grandmother the day she stops noticing the terrible things her children do because she is so enchanted with the wonderful things her grandchildren do. ~Lois Wyse

I wish I had the energy that my grandchildren have — if only for self-defense. ~Gene Perret

The simplest toy, one which even the youngest child can operate, is called a grandparent. ~Sam Levenson

Her grandmother, as she gets older, is not fading but rather becoming more concentrated. ~Paulette Bates Alden

"Grandkids are the reward, you get for not strangling your kids"

If your baby is "beautiful and perfect, never cries or fusses, sleeps on schedule and burps on demand, an angel all the time," you’re the grandma. ~Teresa Bloomingdale

Grandchildren don’t make a man feel old; it’s the knowledge that he’s married to a grandmother. ~G. Norman Collie

The history of our grandparents is remembered not with rose petals but in the laughter and tears of their children and their children’s children. It is into us that the lives of grandparents have gone. It is in us that their history becomes a future. ~Charles and Ann Morse

What is it about grandparents that is so lovely? I’d like to say that grandparents are God’s gifts to children. And if they can but see, hear and feel what these people have to give, they can mature at a fast rate. ~Bill Cosby

You’ve got to do your own growing, no matter how tall your grandfather was. ~Irish Saying

A grandmother is a mother who has a second chance. ~Author Unknown

Being pretty on the inside means you don’t hit your brother and you eat all your peas — that’s what my grandma taught me. ~Author Unknown

Two things I dislike about my granddaughter — when she won’t take her afternoon nap, and when she won’t let me take mine. ~Gene Perret

A grandma’s heart is a patchwork of love. ~Author Unknown

No cowboy was ever faster on the draw than a grandparent pulling a baby picture out of a wallet. ~Author Unknown

Dads know a lot but Granddads know everything! ~Author Unknown

I would love to go back and travel the road not taken, if I knew at the end of it I’d find the same set of grandkids. ~Robert Brault

A grandmother pretends she doesn’t know who you are on Halloween. ~Erma Bombeck

My grandchild has taught me what true love means. It means watching Scooby-Doo cartoons while the basketball game is on another channel. ~Gene Perret

My granddaughter came to spend a few weeks with me, and I decided to teach her to sew. After I had gone through a lengthy explanation of how to thread the machine, she stepped back, put her hands on her hips, and said in disbelief, "You mean you can do all that, but you can’t play my Game Boy?" ~Author Unknown

Soon I will be an old, white-haired lady, into whose lap someone places a baby, saying, "Smile, Grandma!" — I, who myself so recently was photographed on my grandmother’s lap. ~Liv Ullmann

Just about the time a woman thinks her work is done, she becomes a grandmother. ~Edward H. Dreschnack

Grandmothers are just antique little girls. ~Author Unknown

Grandfathers are just antique little boys. ~Author Unknown

Perfect love sometimes does not come until the first grandchild. ~Welsh Proverb

A child needs a grandparent, anybody’s grandparent, to grow a little more securely into an unfamiliar world. ~Charles and Ann Morse

A grandmother is a babysitter who watches the kids instead of the television. ~Author Unknown

What children need most are the essentials that grandparents provide in abundance. They give unconditional love, kindness, patience, humor, comfort, lessons in life. And, most importantly, cookies. ~Rudy Giuliani

Have children while your parents are still young enough to take care of them. ~Rita Rudner

One of the most powerful handclasps is that of a new grandbaby around the finger of a grandfather. ~Joy Hargrove

Every generation revolts against its fathers and makes friends with its grandfathers. ~Lewis Mumford

A grandmother is a safe haven. ~Suzette Haden Elgin

Grandparents are there to help the child get into mischief they haven’t thought of yet. ~Gene Perret

It’s amazing how grandparents seem so young once you become one. ~Author Unknown

The best place to be when you’re sad is Grandpa’s lap. ~Author Unknown

I have a warm feeling after playing with my grandchildren. It’s the liniment working. ~Author Unknown

Nobody can do for little children what grandparents do. Grandparents sort of sprinkle stardust over the lives of little children. ~Alex Haley

Humility does not mean thinking less of yourself than of other people, nor does it mean having a low opinion of your own gifts. It means freedom from thinking about yourself at all. ~William Temple

Swallow your pride occasionally, it's non-fattening! ~Author Unknown

There are two kinds of egotists: Those who admit it, and the rest of us. ~Laurence J. Peter

Too many people overvalue what they are not and undervalue what they are. ~Malcolm S. Forbes

There are a billion people in China. It's not easy to be an individual in a crowd of more than a billion people. Think of it. More than a BILLION people. That means even if you're a one-in-a-million type of guy, there are still a thousand guys exactly like you. ~A. Whitney Brown, The Big Picture

We are all worms, but I do believe I am a glowworm. ~Winston Churchill

Don't talk about yourself; it will be done when you leave. ~Wilson Mizner

It is not titles that honor men, but men that honor titles. ~Niccolò Machiavelli

Truemerit, like a river, the deeper it is, the less noise it makes. ~Edward Frederick Halifax

Egotism is the anesthetic that dulls the pain of stupidity. ~Frank Leahy, Look, 1955 January 10th

It is far more impressive when others discover your good qualities without your help. ~Author Unknown

It is always the secure who are humble. ~G.K. Chesterton

Few are humble, for it takes a self-esteem few possess. ~Robert Brault

In all that surrounds him the egotist sees only the frame of his own portrait. ~J. Petit-Senn

Humble is such a lonely word. ~Kak Sri

Some people are born on third base and go through life thinking they hit a triple. ~Barry Switzer

When someone sings his own praises, he always gets the tune too high. ~Mary H. Waldrip

Don't look for more honor than your learning merits. ~Jewish Proverb

With people of only moderate ability modesty is mere honesty; but with those who possess great talent it is hypocrisy. ~Arthur Schopenhauer

None are so empty as those who are full of themselves. ~Benjamin Whichcote

We would rather speak ill of ourselves than not talk about ourselves at all. ~François VI de la Rochefoucault, Maxims

Any party which takes credit for the rain must not be surprised if its opponents blame it for the drought. ~Dwight Morrow

Modesty is the lowest of the virtues, and is a confession of the deficiency it indicates. He who undervalues himself is justly overvalued by others. ~William Hazlitt

Modesty is the gentle art of enhancing your charm by pretending not to be aware of it. ~Oliver Herford

Modesty: The art of encouraging people to find out for themselves how wonderful you are. ~Author Unknown

Flattery is all right so long as you don't inhale. ~Adlai Stevenson

It is well to remember that the entire population of the universe, with one trifling exception, is composed of others. ~Andrew J. Holmes, Wisdom in Small Doses

What kills a skunk is the publicity it gives itself. ~Abraham Lincoln

A man wrapped up in himself makes a very small bundle. ~Benjamin Franklin

Most of us retain enough of the theological attitude to think that we are little gods. ~Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

It wasn't until late in life that I discovered how easy it is to say "I don't know." ~W. Somerset Maugham

Humility is to make a right estimate of one's self. ~Charles Haddon Spurgeon

A man may do an immense deal of good, if he does not care who gets the credit for it. ~Father Strickland, 1863 (Thanks, Garson O'Toole of quoteinvestigator.com!)

Wash out your ego every once in a while, as cleanliness is next to godliness not just in body but in humility as well. ~Terri Guillemets

Lord, where we are wrong, make us willing to change; where we are right, make us easy to live with. ~Peter Marshall

Talking much about oneself can also be a means to conceal oneself. ~Friedrich Nietzsche

The man who thinks he can live without others is mistaken; the one who thinks others can't live without him is even more deluded. ~Hasidic Saying

Below, you will find my latest picture quote. Where I basically add a favorite quote of mine to a background image that I like.This is on is what I classified as a "funny quote"! Well, at least a kinda funny quote.